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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga and Advertising are mutually exclusive terms, but...
Message-ID: <2834@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 15:49:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.2834
Posted: Sat Oct 17 15:49:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Oct-87 11:59:29 EDT
References: <2785@xanth.UUCP> <2525@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <2525@cbmvax.UUCP> higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom
SALES) writes:

>in article <2785@xanth.UUCP>, kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) says:
>>[me]
> [Paul]

>Disclaimer: These are obviously personal opinions on my part.

>>But, you don't really believe for a minute that the potential
>>customers for a $600 toy that actually requires cerebration and
>>participation forms a one to one map with the set of average couch
>>potato vidiots who also happen to see your efforts?

>I absolutely do!  We didn't sell 7 million C64s to intellectuals.  And
>the C64 is basically a more difficult machine to use than the Amiga.
>Now I mean USE and not PROGRAM.

>	Paul.


Somehow I seem to have a lot more respect for your customer base than
you do!  ;-)

I envision something more like:

* = vidiot mental capabilities (100's of millions of 'em)
^ = C64 purchasers mental capabilities (7 millions of 'em)

                                                                             
                                         *                                   
                                   *           *                             
                                *                 *                          
                              *                     *                        
                             *                       *                       
                            *                         *                      
                           *                          ^*                     
                         *                          ^   ^*                   
                      *                           ^       ^*                 
                  *                             ^           ^ *              
             *                               ^                 ^  *          
       *                                  ^                       ^     *    
*                                    ^                                 ^      *

There's plenty of room for computer users without aiming at the lowest
common denominator, Paul.  They're there too, but if you aim for them,
they won't buy, and the folks you want to buy will be turned off by
your ad aimed at the mental midgits.  Folks like to think that you
think that they're smart, even when it's not true.  What are your ads
telling them that you think of them?

Kent, the man from xanth.

		His expression lit up.  "Hey, you wouldn't be
		a dope smuggler, would you?"

		Rail looked confused.  "Why would anyone wish
		to smuggle stupidity when there is so much of
		it readily available?"

			-- Alan Dean Foster, GLORY LANE